# COM server for editing Excel files?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/com-server-for-editing-excel-files/33672>\
**Category:** Data\
**Created:** [January 22, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/com-server-for-editing-excel-files/33672 "2020-01-22T19:10:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Iulian.Cioarca](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/iulian.cioarca/32/30166_2.png) [@Iulian.Cioarca](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Iulian.Cioarca)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/com-server-for-editing-excel-files/33672/1 "2020-01-22T19:10:54Z")

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I’m using [GitHub - felipenoris/XLSX.jl: Excel file reader and writer for the Julia language.](https://github.com/felipenoris/XLSX.jl) to write data into Excel files and it works great!Thanks,@felipenoris! I would also like to add some formatting(colors, borders, maybe create some graphs). I know Matlab had the option to open a `COM` server with `actxserver`, but I could not find a similar solution in Julia. At the moment, as a workaround, I’m creating a `.vbs` file with some Excel macro code and call it using the `run` function.

Is there a Julia solution for creating `COM` servers?